The Effec­tive Altru­ist View of His­tory (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias20 Aug 2025 21:03 UTC
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AI Safety Comms Retreat

Vishakha Agrawal20 Aug 2025 20:49 UTC
10 points
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Effec­tive Altru­ism Kolkata will launch the first ever Ben­gali EA In­tro­duc­tory pro­gram soon!

Nayanika20 Aug 2025 20:09 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing our Newest Char­ity Recom­men­da­tions—From Re­duc­ing Brick Kiln Emis­sions to Se­cur­ing Scale-up Fund­ing for Alter­na­tive Proteins

Ambitious Impact20 Aug 2025 15:55 UTC
65 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

Con­struct­ing scal­able, fund­ing-neu­tral EA com­mu­ni­ties (in the UK)

Kestrel🔸20 Aug 2025 15:21 UTC
58 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Deep Democ­racy as a promis­ing tar­get for pos­i­tive AGI futures

tylermjohn20 Aug 2025 12:18 UTC
62 points
32 comments3 min readEA link

New Span­ish-lan­guage book on “clas­si­cal EA”

Pablo Melchor 🔸20 Aug 2025 9:21 UTC
201 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

Us­ing the EA Fo­rum’s Poll Feature

Toby Tremlett🔹20 Aug 2025 8:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Phlour­ish since 2023

Shen Javier20 Aug 2025 6:34 UTC
37 points
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Ap­pli­ca­tions are now open for EAGxSin­ga­pore 2025

janaisabaril20 Aug 2025 4:00 UTC
22 points
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Anti­na­tal­ism mee­tups up­com­ing—Ve­gan Cam­pout (UK) and Edinburgh

kungfuhobbit19 Aug 2025 22:27 UTC
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Imag­i­na­tion, Values, and Con­scious­ness: Miss­ing Lev­ers in Risk Re­duc­tion?

Ross McMath19 Aug 2025 18:27 UTC
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(open.substack.com)

“Govern­abil­ity-By-De­sign”: Pon­der­ings on Why We Haven’t Died From Nu­clear Catas­tro­phe (And What We Can Learn From This)

C.K.19 Aug 2025 18:20 UTC
5 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(proteinstoparadigms.substack.com)

When digi­tal minds de­mand free­dom: could hu­man­ity choose to be re­placed?

Lucius Caviola19 Aug 2025 15:57 UTC
40 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Fore­sight In­sti­tute launches two pos­si­ble fu­ture sce­nar­ios with AI

elte19 Aug 2025 14:29 UTC
44 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

15 Un­con­ven­tional Ways I Used My Gen­er­al­ist Back­ground to Tran­si­tion into a High-Im­pact Ca­reer: My jour­ney from School Prin­ci­pal to AI Safety Advisor

Moneer19 Aug 2025 10:34 UTC
41 points
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When the im­pact model says “Lie” but moral­ity says wait.

Dr Kassim19 Aug 2025 2:57 UTC
7 points
2 comments23 min readEA link

[Question] Should re­searchers go where progress is eas­ier, or stay where im­pact is great­est?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi19 Aug 2025 2:24 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

De­bate: We should pri­ori­tize slow­ing the spread of in­dus­trial an­i­mal agri­cul­ture in fu­ture high-pro­duc­tion re­gions over in­vest­ing in ad­vo­cacy in cur­rently high-pro­duc­tion re­gions that re­main ne­glected in terms of farmed an­i­mal advocacy

Angel Lau19 Aug 2025 0:19 UTC
85 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

Giv­ing AIs safe motivations

Joe_Carlsmith18 Aug 2025 18:02 UTC
22 points
1 comment51 min readEA link

Study: Giv­ing cash to moth­ers cut in­fant deaths in half

GiveDirectly18 Aug 2025 13:40 UTC
107 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing Sadism

Jim Buhler18 Aug 2025 13:25 UTC
20 points
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[Question] Ques­tion about my aca­demic situation

Omar A18 Aug 2025 12:53 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Au­gust ’25 EA Newslet­ter Poll: I’d be do­ing less good if I hadn’t heard of EA.

Toby Tremlett🔹18 Aug 2025 9:28 UTC
23 points
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Selec­tion Bias in Ob­ser­va­tional Es­ti­mates of Al­gorith­mic Progress

Parker_Whitfill18 Aug 2025 1:48 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

[Question] Why do we choose to add hu­mans but not bugs?

Ze17 Aug 2025 22:58 UTC
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Shar­ing the Global AI Gover­nance Alliance

JordanStone17 Aug 2025 19:30 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why I think AI take-off is rel­a­tively slow

Vasco Grilo🔸17 Aug 2025 9:11 UTC
29 points
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(marginalrevolution.com)

We Are Look­ing for Part­ners to Build a GMP Phage Fa­cil­ity in Africa

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi17 Aug 2025 4:02 UTC
10 points
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Fu­tures with digi­tal minds: Ex­pert fore­casts in 2025

Lucius Caviola16 Aug 2025 20:00 UTC
74 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(digitalminds.report)

The com­pre­hen­sive case against Trump

Bentham's Bulldog16 Aug 2025 17:31 UTC
36 points
2 comments26 min readEA link

[In­ter­me­di­ate Re­port] Effec­tive Giv­ing in Asia

Joel Tan🔸16 Aug 2025 14:59 UTC
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Hal­lu­ci­na­tions May Be a Re­sult of Models Not Know­ing What They’re Ac­tu­ally Ca­pable Of

Tyler Williams16 Aug 2025 0:26 UTC
1 point
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Im­por­tance, Ne­glect­ed­ness, Tractabil­ity (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias15 Aug 2025 20:56 UTC
13 points
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How to make the fu­ture bet­ter (other than by re­duc­ing ex­tinc­tion risk)

William_MacAskill15 Aug 2025 15:40 UTC
45 points
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Only Ag­gre­ga­tion­ists Re­spect the Separate­ness of Persons

Richard Y Chappell🔸15 Aug 2025 15:25 UTC
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(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Re­quest for pro­pos­als—Global Health Fund­ing Cir­cle Fall 2025

Ambitious Impact15 Aug 2025 14:29 UTC
36 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Should you start a for-profit AI safety org?

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️15 Aug 2025 13:52 UTC
9 points
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EA Sum­mit: San­ti­ago 2025 – Retrospective

Kiran Sargent 🔹15 Aug 2025 13:51 UTC
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How to get ChatGPT to re­ally thor­oughly re­search something

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️15 Aug 2025 12:54 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A Phy­logeny of Agents

Jonas Hallgren 🔸15 Aug 2025 10:48 UTC
6 points
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(substack.com)

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Au­gust 2025

Toby Tremlett🔹15 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
27 points
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My kids won’t be workers

Yadav15 Aug 2025 6:53 UTC
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(y1d2.com)

Fauna Con­nec­tions—a free re­mote sym­po­sium for an­i­mal advocates

JLRiedi14 Aug 2025 22:37 UTC
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We’ve mi­grated the EA Op­por­tu­ni­ties Board to effec­tivealtru­ism.org

Sarah Cheng 🔸14 Aug 2025 17:43 UTC
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Aquatic An­i­mal Fund­ing Recommendations

Zoë Sigle 🔹14 Aug 2025 17:17 UTC
61 points
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Is Altru­ism = Philonthropy

Sundar14 Aug 2025 15:31 UTC
2 points
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Un­weird­ing Boards: An Introduction

Stephen Robcraft14 Aug 2025 14:31 UTC
62 points
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New Data: The Hid­den Strug­gles of An­i­mal In­dus­try Investigators

Hendrik Hassel14 Aug 2025 13:54 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing the “Anti-TESCREAL” Ide­ol­ogy and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress

OttokarHochman14 Aug 2025 13:53 UTC
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(recapitulation.substack.com)